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10/29/2010 1:58PM

digits: Charlie Chaplin "Smartphone"?

A clip from the premiere of a 1920's Charlie Chaplin film appears to show a person using a smartphone, which has been generating Internet buzz - and wild theories of time-travel. A more likely scenario? The passerby was using a 1920's hearing aid, says Simon Constable.

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... meanwhile the mold of Chile Chaplin movie footage is causing an internet sensation in this little in the play of now you can see an individual holding up something to that yet this is no actual movie where is this is ... this footage from the euro ... from over ... a clip of The that some yes all the movie back in nineteen twenty and one and was placed a question on some people's minds as ... is the thing that this woman's holding onto the is a cellphone ... and so is the time trouble with this film after all is from a nineteen twenty eight ... Arculli directed from this was an exalted clip it thusly on the DVD ... always such a man may be a much more simple and say Cabinda only Siemens a hearing aid from nineteen twenty four ... but it's not ... what it was off on mobile phone when they would be like the Kindle something what effect ... flattening it to make up Paul II Korea I'm going to a movie isn't looking Pearl technology in coming up with Conspiracy's there isn't so that's my answer I think we need a healthy dose of skepticism hair I